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Why the RSS is fiddling with history

On 6 March 2018, Reuters, the news agency, revealed that a committee constituted by the RSS-backed central government was going to take a decision about rewriting history. The Indian media though in keeping with its Dwij-ness ignored the news

Omprakash Kashyap March 26, 2018
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Omprakash Kashyap

Born in a village of Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, on 15 January, 1959, Om Prakash Kashyap is a truth-seeking author and thinker. Both while in government service and post retirement, he has published prolifically across genres – novels, short stories, children's literature, poetry, plays. Among his more than fifty titles are 'Periyar E.V. Ramasamy : Bharat ke Voltaire', 'Bharatiya Chintan ki Bahujan Parampara', 'Periyar Sanchayan', 'Samajwadi Andolan ki Prishtbhoomi', 'Samajwadi Andolan ke Vividh Aaayam', 'Parikathayen va Vigyan Lekhan', 'Bachpan aur Bal Sahitya ke Sarokar', 'Kalyan Rajya ka Swapn aur Manavadhikar ke Sawal', 'Farishte' (collection of short stories), 'Jaharbad' (novel), 'Pul kaha nahi hai' (collection of plays). He has been honoured by Hindi Academy, Delhi; Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan; and Santram BA Foundation, Shahjahanpur for his outstanding literary contributions.

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